Judges and Judiciary,
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Jul. 6, 2022
Judge should be defrocked over actions as prosecutor, CJP says
A lawyer for Orange County Judge Michael Murray told a panel of special masters that the judge’s disregard of an altered police report in a murder case “may have been negligent but it was not a willful.”
Lawyers for the state judicial discipline agency have told a trio of special masters that Orange County Superior Court Judge Michael F. Murray intentionally committed prejudicial misconduct while a deputy district attorney by not disclosing exculpatory evidence in a felony murder case he prosecuted years ago.
Murray's defense attorneys have countered that the evidence was not material and not suppressed during the murder defendant's second ...
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